Lock for automobiles



.D. C. WHITEHURST AND G. W. SHADE.

LOCK FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION F| LED APR. 3. 1920.

1 ,4;()2,555 Patented Jan. 3, 1922,

STATES PAT DAVID C. WHITEHURST AND GEORGE W. SHADE, 0F LAKETONT, INDIANA,

LOCK r03 AUTOMOBILES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID C. WVHITH I-IURST, and GEORGE .W. SHADE, citizens of the United States of America, and resldents of Laketon, in the county of Wabash and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locks for Automobiles,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in looks for automobilesand is intended particularly for securing the operating levers of the automobile against operation when applied thereto, and the object of the invention is to provide an attachment adapted to be secured to the car in such position that it may either be locked in interfering position with the control levers or turned to a disengaging position, leaving the levers free and unobstructed.

The objects of the invention are accomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which: I

Fig. l is a side elevation of the invention in locked relation with the control levers of an automobile, the View showing parts prop 6, the extremities 7 of which have acommon axis, each of which is mounted in a corresponding securing member 8. When applied to the automobile, the securing members are positioned upon the slanting floor 1, one on each side of the group of operating levers and permanently fixed to the floor by any suitable means, and the prop is so Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 3,

, each extremity 1920. Serial No. 370,969.

proportioned and arranged, as to be turned while confined by the securing members and engage each of the levers beneath their respective foot plates and prevent their operation. The prop has -a pendant lug 9 from which extends a pair of perforated shackles 10 so arranged as to embrace one of the operating levers 2, the

shackles being so proportioned as to admit even though pressed with greatforce.

When not in use the prop is swung to the position indlcated 1n dotted outline 111 Fig.

l where it in no way interferes'with the nor-' maloperation of any of the levers.

A special feature of the invention is that .the device is so constructed that when in locked relation with one of the operating levers a substantial prop is applied to all of the levers so that they are each braced against forced operation; a What I claim is:

In a lock for an automobile having a group of foot control levers, a U-shaped prop of whichhas pivotal support in a corresponding securing member attached to the floor of the automobile, and having also a pendent lug provided with a pair of shackles at the lower end'thercof Patented Jan. 3,1e22.

group of operating adapted to embrace one of the control levers;

and means for locking the shackles in connection" with the lever, said prop being adapted to engage each of the control levers andbrace the same so as to prevent their 7 operation when the tion. p

In testimony whereof we ailix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID C. VVIIITEIIURST GEORGE IV. SHADE. lVitnesses:

VIOLET IVILLIAMS, GEo. F. OGDEN.

prop is in locked posi- 

